Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-07-01
SHiD CULTURE.
Work Being Done by the
United States Fish
Commission.
An Aged Counterfeiter
Pardoned by Presi-
dent Cleveland.
RAILROAD EARNINGS.
Talk of Quicker Tine from
the Coast to Council Bluffs.
IHdistsd saEysyoE saes lie Government
-AnOthsr Line 70 Psgsi soasd-
cOmlsS Rxearsioaisss
0.a Rates Prevail
suAn uLruRE.
scNB sTaTTsTIcs ABOUT I'M rRoraGkTIox
or eHkD TO N SHOWN BxTME
ANNflAI REPoRT.

soMB sTaTIsTIcs ABOUT zHK PRoPaGATIo,
or sHkD TO N SHOWS BxTME
kNNoAE REPORT.
WAsHTsGTox, June 30.-The statement
prepared foE the annual report Of ths
Fish Oommissioa shsvs. b. river basins
The followina distribution Of shad dur.
I,R the past season: Peeohscos river,
100000; Ksnnebeo river, S00. coo; tTib.
utaFisa Of RaFragansett Bay, I, ,l25, 600;
iFibutaFits Of Hudson river, 1.079 coo;
tributaries Of Delaware Bay, 5.000. 900;
tributaries Of Ohesapeake Bly, 67,149,.
600; tributaries Of AlbeFmarle Sound,
5,622 900; tributaries Of South Atlantis
coast, So. 600; tributaries Of Gulf Of
Mexico, 7.04s. 900; inland waters, l0l, 200;
total, Sc. 42l COO.
This number h greatly in excess Of
The output Of any pfevieus year and the
production has bsea attended By ne In
irease Of expense, which FesaIls are doe
20 the added experience and improved
methods of hatchinQ and culture. Some
observations as 30 the survival Of the
fry pal into our waters show that 70 per
ssut. reached TO three inches in size. n
lsly three per cent. OF all the shad that
aas besa planted 10 the Chesapeake and
ts tributaries, for example during the
present season, should survive and ct
ain maturity, there will be restored to
aur waters By artificial propagation
fully as many matuFed shad as has been
aken from them By fishermen this sea-
son.
Arrangements have been made By the
Commission 10 secure complete Static
los Of the shad catch along the entire
o01st during the present year. Similar
statigtics have been collected during ths
seasons OF 1895 and 1886. Information
llready in the hands Of the Commission
makes it certain that thesagRregate pro
tuction OF shad on the coast has been
larger during the present season than at
any time In the last 20 years.
Colonel Mcdonald will soon start
upon an extended Journey with view
to putting into operation plan con.
elved by Professor Baird which, there
10 reason 10 thizk, will quintuple the
profitable results of the Commissions
work without adding 30 its expenditure.
10 is proposed TO establish nambeF OF
Matching, distributing and collecting
itations Ia variouJ suitable localities,
ech having 10 addition to some especial
work for which its region is adapted,
she general dnty OF collecting tg0s Of
Indigenous spsoies for shipment to
Iiher stations ard of hatehiRg
-Rgs received frem others aud
listributing the young TO suitable waters
IN its own neiRhboThood. TIE edvant-
lge as regards the number OF dsh in
making shipments in the egg state,
when compared with the present method
Il sending ont the youpg hsh. is some
thing enormous.
Ii Is now IN contemplation to establish
stations as follows; One on Hudson,
with the especial view to stocking the
basin OF that stream With salmon trout;
lne in Northern Alabama, or Northern
GsorRia, for the rearing Of tToRt sud
Ither fish adapted 10 that latitude aud
the distributing Of them to the South
Atlantic and Gulf States; one at We'd
Ion, N. O., to breed rock 6sk; one on
tee south slope Of the Ozark Mountains,
20 serve In Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas
aRd nissouri; one IN Colorado, 70 gath
o. eggs Of the Rocky Mountain trout,
and supply the mountain regions With
sassern species, and ons on the Colum-
bia for breeding California salmon and
cod.
Congress has already made the neses
ssry appropriations for tho Columbia
river station. Ool. Mcdonald will select
sites for the others. the actual estab-
iisAmens Of which will OF course await
the sction OF Congress.